Why Researchers Should Use C++ Unit Testing

In this post, I will explain how to use GTest (Google C++ Testing Framework) configured with CMake to handle C++ unit testing. Unit testing ensures you the correctness of your code especially when you modify it to incorporate optimizations / special conditions.Purpose Statement Often in academia and research, people tend to think that investing time … Continue reading Why Researchers Should Use C++ Unit Testing

Hacking DNN Architectures in Cloud Environments

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are increasingly being deployed in commercial cloud environments. However, in shared environments your intellectual property might not be safe as you once thought. In fact, you might just have allowed your competitor to reverse engineer your architecture. In this post, I will explain how an adversary can use the cache hierarchy … Continue reading Hacking DNN Architectures in Cloud Environments

IWOCL 19: Let’s Teach are Computers to Program

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Recently I had the privilege of joining the organizing committee of International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL) 2019, as a volunteer. The workshop was three days; However, I was excited to attend a conference held in conjunction with IWOCL which was DHPCC++ (Distributed & Heterogeneous Programming in C/C++). IWOCL: The Push Towards Heterogeneous Programming The end … Continue reading IWOCL 19: Let’s Teach are Computers to Program